Reach.
Seth arrived on a plant with a large amount of vegetation around him. [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] quickly attempt to connect to a network and use the Internet of this dimension to learn what was going on in this world. While the two girl were busy, Seth used Accel and began to transfer the woodlands until he came across what appeared to be a military base. He was about to enter the building till [F.L.A.M.E.] informed him that the security system was still online. Seth didn't sense any life forms inside, but he used the Thu'um to make himself intangible and approach a security terminal without triggering any alarms.
As [F.L.A.M.E.] was working on disabling the alarm system and attempt to access any data she could find, [B.L.A.Z.E.] decided to inform Seth on what she found. On February 11th 2525 the United Nations Space Command and the Covenant Empire entered a war that was still raging on to this day. For the past 27 years' humanity has been pushed hard by the seemingly numerous Covenant, which was a union of several alien species, the Prophets (San 'Shyuum), the Brutes (Jiralhanae), the Hunters (Mgalekgolo), the Elites (Sangheili), the Jackals (Kig-Yar), the Engineers, the Grunts (Unggoy), and the Drones (Yanme'e).
This coalition of species was on some sort of religious journey throughout the cosmos and when they first encountered humanity, they were extremely hostile, which led to a full scale war with humanity on the retreat for a majority of the time. As Seth was catching up on some of the most recent news stories of this universe, he learned that the planet they were on was called Reach and it's one of humanity many colonies on other planets that had yet to be glasses by the covenant.
[F.L.A.M.E.] finally broke into the base's security network and disabled all alarms and security cameras allowing them access to most of the base. There were a few areas still locked, but the security systems were offline so they could force their way in should the situation arise. Seth walked down the halls of the base and entered what appeared to be living quarters that had seen much better days. Seth had a slight skill with the force ability Psychometry. It allowed him to see events that happened in the past from an object using the force, but his was so underdeveloped from lack of use that all he could get were emotions and not actual images like more skilled users. From several objects he held he could sense fear, anger, and pride? This confused him, so he continued to look throughout the base, which was causing him even more confusion. This places, minus the dust, was in perfect condition. It appears that the base was abandoned abruptly without any warning.
The Je'daii finally made his way towards a medical sector and found a data terminal that was still on. On the screen were the words "FOR THE USE OF THE OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE." This naturally peaked his interest and ask [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] to see if they would get into this Terminal. It took a while, but they soon had access to this terminal. Seth began to look through the data files, but one folder caught his attention.
'SPARTAN II PROGRAM'
Seth clicked on the file and began to read the project. He was soon horrified at what he was learning. ONI had green lighted a project that involves kidnapping children as young as 6 from their homes, replacing them with flash clones, that were program to die in short amount of time. The kids were taken here to undergo rigorous military and highly dangerous augmentation to make them into the perfect killing machines to use against any colonies that would dare to attempt independence from the earth government. However, the project only had a 44% success rate. 33 of the 75 children came out of the augmentation process unharmed, while the rest weren't so lucky.
Seth sicken at this project, he swore if he ever got his hands on Doctor Halsey, he would reach her a lesson. Seth was brought out of his mind when [B.L.A.Z.E.] told him about a sealed door with something he may want to see. Seth downloaded a copy of all the SPARTAN II project and soon headed where [B.L.A.Z.E.] instructed him to go. The Je'daii came across a sealed door. He ignited one of his newly constructed lightsabers and a purple blade of plasma appeared. Seth cut open a hole in the sealed doors and walked down the hallway till he found a room with a strange set of grey armor inside of it and some sort of medical pod. The armor appeared to be incomplete, but he guesses that it was the armor the Spartan wore. The Mjolnir armor detailed in the report he read.
There were two problems of Seth wanted to impersonate a Spartan. He lacked their cybernetic implants needed to operate the armor and he wasn't tall enough for it. Seth already had the augmentations due to this mutation that made him have nearly all the same skills as a Spartan along with the force to assist him. But the armor was an issue. He needed to gain about 4 inches to wear the damn suit. That could be fixed with the sword of Akasha as it can change the reality of anything it touches, but there was still the problem of the cybernetics and of course how was he gonna take being a Spartan.
It was clear that these super soldiers were heavily documented and it would raise many red flags with others familiar with the program if he just appeared. As fate would have it, the medical pod in the room could perform the surgery to implants the cybernetics once he took a regenerative suppression medication, and [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] said they would help him with creating a new identity within the ONI network as a new type of Spartan and complete the armor while Seth underwent the surgery.
Seth took out a series of pills that would suppress his healing factor for a time. Ritsuko and Tabane made it I case Seth ever needed surgery, and they knew his healing factor could become a hassle of it went into overdrive while surgery was being performed on him. Once all the pills were taken, Seth stripped down and sat in the pod.
48 hours later.
Seth awoke with a slight headache and back pain, but they would soon subside once he got moving. Seth looked around and saw both [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] in nurse outfits. They finally noticed that Seth was awake.
"Welcome back to the land of the living Spartan Seth-121." Blaze said as she helped Seth get up.
"Master, we've upgraded this prototype significantly and it's tailored to match you perfectly." Flame said as she approached Seth with a pair of scissors in her hand. Seth had to say goodbye to his hair for now. It was military standard for men to have short hair. Flame left him with at least a 1cm of hair, so it wasn't a total buzz it, but still he would miss his hair.
After shaving his head, Seth put on a skintight Black body armor suit then proceeded to equip the grey Mjolnir Gen-2 prototype Recruit-class armor with some assistance. [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] now entered their digital forms and transferred themselves to two data chips. Seth put the helmet on his head and picked up the two chips. He then proceeded to put the two chips in the slots on the back of his helmets. Once they were inside, [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] powered up the heavy suit of armor. The HUD and energy shields were online and working with peak efficiency.
"Seth, it's time to get moving. There's several warthogs in a garage near here. I'll display the location on your HUD." Blaze stated as a near marker appear on Seth's visor.
July 24, 2552, 7:28 Hours.
Seth arrived at the coordinates provided by [B.L.A.Z.E.] as she was able to get Seth assign to a Spartan unit, more specifically one called Noble Team. As Seth walked into a small structure with the member of Noble team, he was greeted by mostly glares. Blaze had brief Seth about the members of noble team prior to his arrival.
Noble team was currently comprised of five members. Commander Carter-A259, Noble One. The current leader of Noble team and a no nonsense soldier.
Lieutenant Commander Catherine B320, Noble Two aka Kat. She was the brains of the team and anything and everything tech related was left in her care. She also has a knack for getting into things she's not supposed to and was very capable in a fire fight even with one of her arms being robotic.
Warrant officer Jun A266, Noble Three. He was the team's sniper and was a very thoughtful and taciturn soldier. He is the watchful eye of Noble team.
Warrant officer Emile A239, Noble Four. A bold and aggressive Spartan, he is the assault specialist of the team and engraved a skull on his helmet giving him an aggressive appearance. His file said he is extremely hostile in battle.
Chief Warrant officer Jorge-052, Noble Five. The only Spartan II on Noble team. He's the heavy weapons specialist of Noble Team. Seth knew that he was one of the 75 children that were kidnapped and could relate to him to a degree.
Seth was here to take the place of Thom A293 the former Noble Six who sacrificed himself to destroy a CCS-class Battlecruiser during the battle of Fumirole. He could tell that this team was close and they didn't take kindly to a new guy coming to replace someone dear to them.
Once Carter was finished speaking Colonel Urban Holland, the new Noble team was tasked with finding out why they loss communications from the Visegrád Relay station. Holland believe it to be the work of insurrectionist and wants Noble team to take care of the threat, despite ONI objections of deploying a Spartan team for just a simple task.
"Lieutenant." Carter said as he finished his call with Holland.
"Commander Sir!" Seth reacted without think due to his prior training.
"I'm Carter, Noble team's leader. That's Kat Noble Two, Jorge, Emile, Four and Five." Carter said as he pointed towards the others as they exited the building and headed towards a pair of nearby UH-144 Falcons.
"You're riding with me Noble Six. I'm not gonna lie to you lieutenant. You're stepping into some shoes the rest of the squad rather leave unfilled. Me? I'm just happy to have noble back up to full strength. Just one thing, I've seen your file. Even the parts the ONI sensors didn't want me to. Glad to have your skill sets, but we're a team. That Lone wolf stuff stays behind. Clear?"
"Got it sir." Seth replied.
"Welcome to Reach." Jun said as he finally interacted with their newest member.
A little later on.
"Listen up Noble team. Looking at a down relay outpost 50 clicks away from Visegrád. We're gonna introduce ourselves to whoever took it out, then Kat is gonna get it back online." Carter stated as he informed the team on the situation.
"Get me under the hood commander." Kat responded.
"Sir, why would rebels want to cut Communication between the rest of the colonies?" Noble five asked.
"If you get a chance, maybe you could ask them Jorge." Carter answered. The pair of Falcons traveled for several more seconds, before all communications were cut.
"Sir, I've lost all contact with HQ." Kat reported.
"Backup channels?"
"Searching. Na-da, can't say what's jamming them."
"You heard her, dead zone confirmed. Command will not be keeping us company on this trip." Carted stated.
"I'm lonely already." Emile responded sarcastically.
The Falcons found a suitable location to land nearby the distress beacon they received. All but Noble 3 got off. Seth was given an assault rifle along with a standard magnum for his equipment. As Noble team arrived at the beacon, the met a group of locals that were fearful of their lives. Jorge spoke to them in Hungarian asking what it happen. The locals stated that they were attacked by something unknown last night. And I have been barricaded ever since. Seth sensed that something not human was nearby. Just than Jun reported that he detected a heat signature in a building nearby, where Seth had sensed. Noble team rushed toward the building. Once inside the first building, they found two dead bodies with evidence that they had been interrogated. Noble team hear something in the around them and they began to see several dots appear on their motion sensor radar on their HUD. Once Noble team made it to the second building they could see who it was that attacked the locals and the military unit send here last night.
"Dammit it's the covenant! Noble team open fire!" Carter order as the Covenant began to unleash a wave of plasma toward the team of Spartans. Seth took his assault rifle and began to open fire on the grunts and jackals that got in his way. It was seemingly easy to mow his way through the covenant, that was until he encountered several elites. Like his Mjolnir armor, they had energy shields that had to be taken down first.
Seth unload two full clips from his assault rifle just to get their damn shields down, but once they were down, they were like any other target. This was starting to get on Seth nerves, and the Je'daii wished he could just use the force to destroy these aliens, but that would destroy his cover he had set up.
Once noble team had clear out the covenant in their area, they had to contact Holland and inform the UNSC of the Covenant. But before they headed towards the relay station, Noble team picked up on a distress signal.
After commandeering a few local transports, noble team arrived at the distress signal location and assisted the survive UNSC marines that were sent the day prior. After fight off a couple of waves from the covenant, transport for injured marines arrived, as did the transport for Noble Team. Once they boarded the Falcons, they were taken to the relay station. It took a several minutes but Kat was able to opened the locked doors of the station. After entering the building Noble four covered the rear while the others entered. Seth sensed several life forms inside the room and discovered the body of a dead scientist with a data module in his hands.
"Damn. Plasma damage!" Kat said as she tried to get the network backup.
"Found something." Seth said as he brought up the data chip.
"I'll take that, Six. Not your domain." Kat said as she snatched the chip from Seth's hand.
"I've got a live one over here! Come on, out you come." Jorge said as he picked up a girl that was hiding. The woman began to yell out in Hungarian.
"It's all right, we're not going to hurt you." Jorge said as he tried to calm her down.
"Jorge..." Carter stated as he witness his teammate's action.
"I've got her." Jorge said as he put his weapon down, and placed both hands on the shoulders of the young girl. While Jorge attempted to calm the girl down Seth sensed that there were a large number of hostiles nearby and there were three inside the room. He found three Elites nearby Jorge and raised his rifle.
"CONTACT!" Seth shouted alerting the others. Jorge moved to protect the girl while Seth open fire on the Elites.
"We've been engaged!" Carter stated as he and the rest of Noble attacked the Elites that soon ran away once they took an injured Marine with them.
"Bad guy coming out! Five and Six, clear the hole!" Carter said while the others would secure the area, Seth and Jorge quickly moved towards the area where the Elites fled to, and sealed the door behind them.
Once inside, the two Spartans were greeted by a volley of plasma fire, thanks to the group of Grunts and Jackals that open fire on them. It didn't take long for the two Spartan to reach the Elites and engage them. As they were fighting, one of the Elites snuck up on Jorge and ignited his energy sword. Jorge raised his heavy machine gun in an attempt to block the strike, but it never came. Seth had used the thrusters on his suit to reach the Elite and ignited one of his curved purple lightsabers. After blocking the attack, Seth spun around and struck the Elite in the chest killing him instantly. Seth then used his lightsaber to repel several blast from some plasma weaponry. After clearing up the Covenant and resetting a junction, Jorge asked Seth what those swords were. Seth made up some bullshit, about how ONI reversed engineered captured Elite energy sword and made them suitable for human hands. This answered seemed to please the Spartan II and the two rejoined the rest of Noble who were trying to contact Holland.
"How long." Carter asked Kat.
"Question of my life. If the question is when will this station be back online, two weeks, earliest. This is plasma damage. All major uplink components are fried."
"Two minutes is too long."
"Which is why I'm splicing into the main overland bundle to get you a direct line to Colonel Holland... You're in my light, Commander."
"Find out what she knows." Carter said as he turned to Jorge.
"What's your name? Do you live around here?" Jorge removed his helmet in order to try and connect with the young woman.
"My name's Jorge." The Spartan said in Hungarian.
"Sara." said girl responded.
"Your accent sounds familiar. Sopron?"
"Tengeri."
"Friend of yours?" Jorge said as he looked towards the body of the dead scientist.
"Father."
"I'm sorry." Jorge said.
"Why would you be?"
"Big man forgets what he is sometimes." Emile said to Seth, loud enough for the Spartan two to hear.
"She just lost her father." Jorge looked towards Carter "She needs a full psychiatric workup."
"She's not the only one." Emile fired back.
"Lock it down, both of you! Get her on her feet... the body stays here." Carter said.
"Thank you, sir." Jorge walked by Emile and glares at him, before he helps Sara get on her feet.
"Signal! It's patchy, but it's there." Kat said to Carter.
"I'll take it."
"Best not touch anything. You wouldn't want to ground this place." All but Carter left the room allowing him to Holland alone.
"... I'm barely getting you. What's your situation, over?" Holland said over the unstable connection.
"Colonel, this is Noble One. There are no rebels. The Covenant are on Reach. Acknowledge?"
"Come again, Noble One? Did you say Covenant?"
"Affirmative. It's the WINTER CONTINGENCY."
"May God help us all..."